Kamala Harris

 Kamala Devi Harris, born October 20 1964 was a prominent American politician and lawyer. She is currently the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first African American and first Asian American vice president. As a member of the Democratic Party, she has previously served as attorney general of California between 2011 and 2017, and also as the state's attorney general from 2011 to 2017 and as a United States senator representing California until 2021. Harris was born in Oakland and attended Howard University, University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Following her first job as an Alameda County District Attorney Harris was enlisted to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. In the following years, she was the City Attorney of San Francisco. In 2003, she was elected the city's district attorney. She was elected Attorney General of California in 2010, and then re-elected in 2014. Harris was the United States junior senator from California, from 2017 to 2021. Harris defeated Loretta Martinez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African American woman and first South Asian American senator to be elected to the United States Senate. As a senator she advocated healthcare reform, federal descholaring of cannabis, a pathway for undocumented immigrants to become citizens and the DREAM Act and a ban on assault weapons. She also supported progressive tax reform. Her most well-known accomplishments are her pointed questions of Trump administration officials in Senate hearings.






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